Mentoring

The CFSHRC has long had mentoring as a key and vital component of its mission. To this end, we offer multiple opportunities for members to receive mentoring in various capacities.

CCCC Mentoring Tables: Every year at our annual CCCC Wednesday night SIG, the Coalition hosts an hour of mentoring tables, offering junior and senior scholars the chance to talk together on topics such as developing new historical research methodologies, doing feminist WPA work, finding or maintaining a work-life balance, composing in digital spaces, and performing activism, to name only a few. These mentoring tables are open to anyone attending the CCCC each year.

Feminisms and Rhetorics: The Feminisms and Rhetorics conference also offers a manuscript mentoring program sponsored by the Coalition for scholars working on a project at any stage -- from early conception to a completed manuscript. This program occurs during the biennial Feminisms and Rhetorics conference, during a dedicated session where mentors meet in person with scholars to discuss their work. Many such conversations also extend well beyond the conference.

Online Manuscript Mentoring Program: This relatively new program is being piloted in 2019, and it puts Coalition faculty members in touch with other faculty members or graduate students who seek informal mentoring on a particular publication goal that may require time to develop over the course of a year -- for example, receiving recurring feedback on a dissertation chapter or manuscript chapter in progress, demystifying the journal submission process, transforming a conference paper into publication, increasing expertise in writing literature reviews, etc. Mentoring sessions occur via videoconference one-on-one or in pairs or small groups. Please contact Tarez Graban (tgraban@fsu.edu) if you would like to volunteer as a mentor, or to receive mentoring in 2019.

Peitho Journal Mentoring: While Peitho's submission and peer review process already operates on a model that helps authors move manuscripts to publication, Peitho also offers a mentoring program specifically for developing manuscripts. The journal's editors will match writers with mentors when a manuscript shows promise but it is either not ready to go out for review or comes back with suggestions for significant revision. Mentors work one on one with writers to help them evolve their manuscripts from draft to re-submission.